Autumn Leaves & Time

So everyone always laments about not having balance in their lives during law school-- about living, breathing, sleeping school. But really? It's all about choice, it's about what you CHOOSE to do and when. It's simple: everyone has the same number of hours in a day, they just use them differently. Personally, I know the importance of eating, sleeping & exercising-- nothing can substitute for a good night's sleep, it just doesn't work. There is also nothing that substitutes for a good run outside on top of the wet asphalt covered in fall leaves--there's something mystical, head clearing... something so basic about it that just makes stress bleed off.

But I digress yet again. So I just don't get it when kids lament about not having time to do things. They seem to have enough time to go out and party and drink and hang out with friends... that's the way they choose to spend their down time. So how exactly should I feel bad for them when come the weekend they have a ton of work to do? Or when they are up late trying to catch up on reading? Yeah... my sympathy level? Zero. Maybe I should go out and party... but you know what? That's never been an interest of mine. I just don't get it. I love going to a wine bar with a few girlfriends, or a sports bar with my man, but otherwise? Just to "go out"?? Uhhhmmm nah. No thanks. I choose to spend my time elsewhere. I like to chill out and let my body relax during my down time.

So why does all of this matter anyway? Because it's memo hunting season. And it's just starting to get interesting. Outlines are due tomorrow, and then on Nov 20th memos are do. It's like watching a social experiment--watching the procrastinators, the spazzes, and then everyone else in between... I get a good chuckle out of it and sometimes will add a little fuel to the fire to just watch it flame up. But really, I am so far past the spazzing over 1 assignment that this whole memo thing doesn't have me even concerned. It's meant to be an exercise in writing and an exercise in time management. A little a day. Didn't anyone every read the "Tortoise and the Hare" when they were little? Can't write it in a weekend-- you have no perspective, you lose ability to really pace and think things through. I don't want to post yet just how far I have gotten because people will be pissed one way or the other. But suffice it to say, next Monday and Tuesday (19th & 20th), I will be sitting on the sidelines smiling and watching the social experiment really peak. In the meantime, I'll keep plowing through... bit by bit... and running on the wet, leaf covered asphalt.